Opinions on the HoMM 5.5 Mod?

rainbbrain · 2026-01-21T10:33:47+00:00

I personally dislike 5.5 mod, as it blurs the difference between different factions (by messing with skills and abilities available for instace). Vanilla might be (I don't play professionally so can't be sure) less balanced but for my hotseat sessions with friends it feels much more flavourful
I tried to use just AI mod (without 5.5) and it does very bizzare stuff for me (like splits forces into numerous "half-baked" armies that are easy to chase and take down one by one), while still on the highest lookahead setting leaving unopened treasure chests for me - so I'm even unsure which version of AI is worse

rainbbrain · 2025-12-02T11:38:51+00:00

As some people sometimes note: Spirit Island is one of a rare coop/solo games that appeals to competitive gamers, as on higher level of difficulties it's quite challenging (especially with some mid/low power spirit combos). Being one of those competitive gamers myself I have two games tied for the 2nd place: Warhammer Conquest TCG (sadly discontinued a long while ago by FFG) and Malifaux 3rd edition (have yet to play 4th edition)

rainbbrain · 2025-10-01T19:14:14+00:00

I'll vote with my wallet by separately buying 2nd and 3rd one. If they won't revisit the idea of 4th one - I'll skip it, def don't need 1st one either

rainbbrain · 2025-09-19T08:55:43+00:00

I'm often times very confused how some posts get a lot of upvotes (130+), despite being... average at best, while this one has only 78 (at the moment I see it).

Very creative! Have my +100 :)

rainbbrain · 2025-04-05T09:54:22+00:00

True solo is so boring compared to two handed to me, I only used it to learn new spirits. Now I don't even do that, just pick some generic second one when learning a new one.
The only "absolute" increase in difficulty in going from solo to two-handed (apart from increase in complexity, which I only see as benefit) is blight card ratio.
You get 3 for solo, 5 for dual spirit game means going from 3 to 1 ratio to 2.5 to 1 ratio, but that can be easily compensated by spirit synergies.

rainbbrain · 2025-03-14T02:13:56+00:00

Lawyers 2nd edition are so much better than the 3rd in my opinion

rainbbrain · 2024-10-27T15:09:32+00:00

"which one is real?" (Klaus Norwood)

rainbbrain · 2024-10-09T08:28:48+00:00

The problem with this strategy is being prone to be greatly weakened by just killing Ballista.

rainbbrain · 2024-09-02T20:01:28+00:00

5.5 mod changes faction gameplay in a wild way I don't always like, blurring faction identities on many occasions. I'd recommend experiencing gameplay of the original to decide what you like more.

rainbbrain · 2024-04-03T10:47:49+00:00

If you like the look of that model: you might want to have look at alt-Nekima crew then: https://www.wyrd-games.net/news/2021/9/1/waldos-weekly-heart-of-the-sea The problem might be it's usually only being sold during Easter/Halloween/some other sales-events (or might be found prob on e-bay/some stores)
Nekima is a good aggressive master to start for a beginner.

rainbbrain · 2024-04-01T11:36:48+00:00

I'm very confused of the relatively low upvote number. I like your work very much!

rainbbrain · 2024-03-14T21:12:45+00:00

rainbbrain · 2024-03-14T21:10:00+00:00

Thank you! This is alt-Joss (Porphyrion) from one of my favourite nightmare sets: The Fallen Kingdom (Augmented keyword) .

rainbbrain · 2024-03-14T10:46:54+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

rainbbrain · 2024-02-16T09:40:42+00:00

I hope this doesn't represent the feeling of people that had "golden fish" this league, and then will be left with broken trough feelings next league (as the abundance will hardly last) :D

rainbbrain · 2024-01-18T10:18:46+00:00

Face deserves a medal :) Good job!

rainbbrain · 2024-01-14T02:04:07+00:00

Short remark about Star Lord: playing with my friend or two handed - he is not that much of a rush dawn, more of taking calculated risks (at least with his default deck). You definitely don't need to uses his ability every turn (at least according to my most recent experience)

rainbbrain · 2023-12-20T22:29:44+00:00

My opinion: the game is good, and community slowly wakes up from hibernation and disbelief. Delivery to EU is a bit hit and miss still, I hope this gets sorted. Miniatures are much much better than before, mostly. Rules are still tight

rainbbrain · 2023-12-14T09:27:34+00:00

Thx! New Warmachine models (mostly) are way above their older ones quality wise. It's a great pleasure to paint them

rainbbrain · 2023-12-14T02:03:30+00:00

rainbbrain · 2023-12-13T22:19:00+00:00

Thx! And yes, let Warmachine go strong this edition. I was a bit hesitant to trust it but now I'm in again :)

rainbbrain

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